The Magazine: Candy Floss
Target Readership: Candy Floss is aimed for young teenage girls around the age of 13 – 16 which means they are still at school. This is a fun magazine mainly aimed for teenage girls and gives them something fun to read after school. People who read this magazine will want to know the latest gossip from music artists and other celebs, it also information on how to download the latest chart music. So the readers of Candy Floss will like the latest chart music which is mainly pop music. There will also be pages on fashion and where you can buy the latest fashion items. The parents of readers will be in the C1/C2 socioeconomic grouping this means that readers will rely on their parents to buy the magazine. But some of the readers may have part time jobs so they can buy the magazine. Candy Floss wants to cover everything that is important in a teenage girl’s life but also pages which contain humour e.g. embarrassing moments and advice pages. Candy Floss is for girls who like to know the latest information about fashion, celebs, music artists, horoscopes, advice about boys and problems that may occur at school.
Form and Style: Candy Floss is A4 magazine will contain horoscopes, latest music releases, celeb interviews, advise about school and boys, problem pages, reviews on films and music and embarrassing moments. The colours used for Candy Floss will be bright and bold, using colours like pink, blue, yellow and purple. These will be very girly colours to show it’s for young female teenagers. The front cover will also contain famous well-known music artists e.g. Justin Beiber and Rihanna. The cover lines will tell you what is included in the magazine with little pictures to draw attention to this. Competitions will also be included on the cover lines, this piece of information will have a bright background to make it stand out. Images and graphics used will be very bright with special affect on the front cover to add boldness and brighten the images to make the magazine more alerting. The magazine will sell at £2.10, this will make the magazine affordable for teenage girls.
Themes and Typical features: Candy Floss will have many typical features of a teenage magazine. Every magazine will have a problem page, latest music releases, reviews on films and music, horoscopes, interviews with celebs, gossip and fashion. There will be a strong focus on music and advice on typical teenage girl’s problems. There will be 4 main themes in this magazine: music, film, fashion and advice. The writer will use language that the audience are more likely to understand, this will help the audience understand it more and an easy, fun read. The target audience can writer into the magazine and get what they have sent published onto the magazine; they can do this for the embarrassing moment pages or the problem pages. This will make the reader understand the problem and they will get advice from an expert and that advice may help other people reading the magazine.
Potential advertisers: There will be several pages used for adverts, a range of brands will advertise and these adverts will pay an interest on the magazine e.g. No.7, Top shop, Primark, Tampax, Bench clothing, Dove, Sure and HMV.
Editorial Team: The editorial team for my magazine will be made up of hard working professional writers and designers. The team will mostly be young women around 25 because they have more understanding on teenage girls. Readers writing for embarrassing moments and problem pages will be published onto the magazine. The aim of the team is to add new ideas and keep it fresh and updated compared to other teenage magazines plus include the readers with the magazine.
This type of font is very bold this will be good to draw attention to the reader. This will be a good font to use for the front cover. 
This font style is very girly, using hearts for the dots on the I's. You can tell this type of text is for young teenage girls by having flicks on the G's. 
This colour would stand out well with a picture in the background, it's very bright to draw attention to the reader. This colour would also look good with the last font choice. 
This colour choice is very bright and would go well with a darker background. This colour would go well with the fourth font choice, its very bright and will attract my target audience. 
This colour would look very attractive with a light background, and it will go well with the second font style choice. Its a good peach colour which will go with my name of my magazine which is Candy Floss. 
National Magazine Company's flagship glossy, Cosmopolitan, recorded a nine per cent fall in circulation year on year in the first half of 2010 as the women's lifestyle sector benefited from double-digit growth thanks to new free magazines and resilient performances elsewhere.
Although some titles enjoyed year-on-year circulation hikes of more than 80 per cent in the second half of 2009, the women's weekly sector could only manage a 2.9 per cent lift overall, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures released today.
Q - 89,450 (-10.7%)
On the second page this is a small photo of the magazine front cover of that magazine. There are also a big photo of a band and what is included in that page. There is also 2 smaller pictures one of a big group of people in a club, this picture is very bright and will attract the audience and may encourage them to go. The other picture is of a new music artist. The layout is very organised and easy to read.
On the front cover of the Mixmag magazine they use a photo as a background for the front cover the picture has an artist on, mid close up. This shows what genre of music this magazine is for by adding a famous well known artist on the front cover. It also includes a list of features which are included in the magazine. The title is bright with an appealing type of font. The price which is 34.20 is in very small text this shows it is too expensive. The cover lines are mainly at the sides which makes the layout different because they are normally at the bottom. There are two main colours which are used which are yellow and white. There is also a small image at the top right corner of the page which isn't too relevant. There is also a link to the Mixmag website to get more information about the magazine. On the master head it says that this magazine is the world's biggest dance music and clubbing magazine this shows that this magazine is popular and what genre of music the magazine is.
As soon as you look at this magazine you can tell what genre of music it is, by adding pictures of the artists on the front cover with their names the images ae also quite bold against the black background. There are 3 main colours with are used in this magazine which are black, white and red, these colours go well with the type of music genre of the magazine. The images aren’t randomly scattered, they are organised in a pattern with a logo in the middle, this attracts the reader to the logo and shows that the logo links with the pictures that are used. The cover line is very simple not giving too much away about what is included in the magazine but only giving a list of artists that are included in the magazine to give a simple effect. The price which is £3.95 is hidden by the barcode so it doesn't attract the reader this is because the price is too expensive and they keep the focus off the price. The master head is very effective because it is bright and appealing compared to the rest of the magazine which is mainly black with a red title and white cover lines. Also in the title there is a microphone added in the O of source which shows it is a music magazine there are also microphones in the logo which shows that they link together. There is also a link to there website at the bottom corner of the page which gives you more access to The Source and where you can get more information about the magazine.
It mentions on the master page that this magazine is, The UK's biggest music magazine which shows that this magazine is a popular choice. This magazine uses creative imagery, using cartoon pictures which include photographs of different artists. The title uses a different colour background compared to the rest of the magazine is mainly blue. The layout is simple not too complicated with a main picture with writing under and a box with the title in on the top with a master head and cover lines. The front cover shows you what sort of genre this magazine is by adding the artists that are included in the magazine, they do this by adding the photos of the artists in the wave which is in the cartoon picture which links it together. On the front cover, it also has there names in bold, attractive text.
